A New Music Director for Sydney Chamber Choir

A New Music Director for Sydney Chamber Choir

Australia’s most admired conductor and respected musical educator, Richard Gill, has been announced as the incoming Musical Director of the Sydney Chamber Choir. Richard will take over from Paul Stanhope who was recently appointed as Artistic Chair of the Australia Ensemble. Richard Gill has been the Patron of the choir since 2009 and is guest conductor for the first…

‘Tales of Two Cities’ from the Sydney Chamber Choir and the Adelaide Chamber Singers

‘Tales of Two Cities’ from the Sydney Chamber Choir and the Adelaide Chamber Singers

The Sydney Chamber  Choir and Adelaide Chamber Singers reprise their successful 2012 collaboration to perform two famous works for forty voices – Thomas Tallis’ monumental Spem in alium and Gabriel Jackson’s companion piece Sanctum est Lumen Verum. Jackson’s  work has been described in Gramophone magazine as an ‘astonishing tour de force in  which the strands of musical texture cascade…

The Sydney Chamber Choir and Sydney Camerata join forces for Easter cantatas

The Sydney Chamber Choir and Sydney Camerata join forces for Easter cantatas

The Sydney Chamber Choir conducted by its Musical Director Paul Stanhope performs two vividly contrasting Eastertide settings of Christ’s final words on the cross. James MacMillan’s dramatic cantata Seven Last Words from the Cross delivers a powerful Easter message, alongside a sublime contemplative setting by the German Baroque master Heinrich Schütz. Themes of sorrow and redemption…